“It’s odd but very nice and humbling. I can’t quite understand why people want me to write my name on a piece of paper or have my photo taken with them. All I want to do is make people laugh, for people to see me and enjoy it, but I can’t get my head around the fact that they remember my name and what I look like and recognise me.

“I don’t think I’ll ever get used to that.”

Cook himself will also appear in the drama, as loveable rogue Ramsey, a character inspired by Chris Ramsey.

He added: “I somehow knew Chris would end up playing the young version of me and that I would be playing Ramsey and, unbelievably, when I was younger my hair was even worse than Chris’s is now.”

The drama was commissioned by Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow and Channel X North.

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